On 15 November, Colour Sergeant Krishnabahadur Dura of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles was killed in action in Afghanistan.

Defence News, part of the Ministry of Defence, said, "He was rated as one of the Army's best snipers attaining best student on his Snipers' course. He was highly respected by all." C. Sgt Dura was killed by a Taliban bomb which injured two male colleagues and one female officer, who lost her leg.

C. Sgt Dura, 36, leaves two daughters and a wife. He had served in the British Army since 1992.

But the purpose of this article is not to recount his years of selfless service, nor to sing the praises of his heroism in Afghanistan. It is to draw attention to the most appallingly callous, bureaucratically pig-headed mindset #### has so far encountered. Because the Home Office is currently threatening to deport the wife and two little children of C. Sgt Dura.

If only he'd come to this country in the back of an artic from Albania the gobment would have bent over backwards for them. No, he came over here to fight for this country, to be a Gurkha, to be one of the best fighting men on this planet.
And when he gives the ultimate sacrifice to this country, not even the country of his birth but one he's chosen to fight for, all we do is shite on ther ones he leaves behind.
I love my country, sometimes I think I'm one of the only ones that does these days, but things like this make you wonder wether or not there is anything to love about Britain.
How do you start those Downing Street petition thingies?

A campaign is under way to allow the widow of a Gurkha soldier killed in action to remain in Kent.

Uma Duraâs husband Krishnabahadur, a colour sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Gurkha Rifles, died when the Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle he was in was hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan last month.

The 36-year-old was based in Folkestone and his wife and two daughters, aged four and 11, had been living at Howe Barracks in Canterbury.

The elder daughter is a pupil at Kingsmead School in the city and both children were born in the UK - but Home Office rules do not automatically allow the widows of Gurkhas to remain in the country.

Politicians of all parties on Canterbury City Council are hoping to persuade the Home Office to allow Mrs Dura and her daughters the right to stay.

Lib Dem Brian Staley is a central figure in the campaign. He said: "The whole council feels it is morally right to press for them to be allowed to stay so that they can continue living in Canterbury and so that the girls can go to school here."

After his death, C/Sgt Duraâs body was flown back to the UK and then taken back to Nepal from RAF Lyneham. His wife and daughters are there this week attending his funeral.

Adding his support to the campaign, Canterbury MP Julian Brazier said: "Krishna Dura has made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of his country.

"His wife has long been settled here and both his children were born here. This is their home and I urge the Government to treat their case with the compassion and humanity that it deserves."